[etni] [FWD: re: Response to Shoshana]
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Subject: Fwd(4): [etni] Response to Shoshana
From: "Gay Bergman" <gay@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, February 03, 2005 5:17 pm
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Dear Andreea and Concerned Teachers,
Actually, if you look on page 260 of the latest Harrap's
Dictionary (1988!), you'll find hot defined as
"highly spiced" in the second definition.
Good luck with your teaching!
Gay Bergman
Eric Cohen Books
Andreea wrote:
> If pupils can't check their answers we are indeed in
> big trouble! On answering the questions of one of the
> ECB unseens, my pupils came across the need to find
> the right definition of "hot" (as spicy) and those who
> used the "Harrap" dictionary (they are Arabic native
> speakers) couldn't find the right answer. And I , in
> my naivete, told them that the test writers check
> themselves using the Oxford, so they should try to
> get hold of one for the bagrut. Not that the Oxford is
> that good... but that's another story.
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